6.40 Prayer for the Day ROSEMARY WAKELIN
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead including at 6.50 and 7.50 VIIF Regional news and Weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 7.0 and 8.9 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50
English Regions: see column 5
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 71; The church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183); Psalm 145, w 13-21; Luke 4. vv 31-44 (RSV); The Lord is King! Lift up thy voice (BBC HB 26)
A Matter of Marital Bliss by GEOFFREY PERKINS
Read by Frank Windsor
Is Alderman Adams having an affair? With his wife's private detective on the trail, his friends at the Chainmakers' Arms move into action. Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
In the second of six programmes. the best-selling author of books on all creatures great and small talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN about his phenomenal literary success and his veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire.
2: The Vet's Li/e, Yesterday and Today
Producer PETER DE ROSA
Presenter Nancy Wise
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Basket and find out.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
from 2.0
Introduced by June Knox Mawer Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Kids' Village: MARY DOWNING reports on a theatre project in Stratford East. London. Answer and Comment.
The Mugbuff: how BOB COLEMAN got tired of being mugged in New York.
A Cage of Hummingbirds (2)
Story: Mr Williams the Window Cleaner by JOHN FARRINGTON
A Question of Identity by H. A. WRENN
It is not unusual for a killer to mistake the identity of his victim, but usually when this happens the crime is murder. When it happens in a case of suicide, a great many questions have to be answered.
Producer ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
The Luck of the Valls 9: Murder at Vail
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
(Gareth Armstrong is a member of the RSC)
Dick Tracey
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Philately will get you Nowhere A farcical comedy for radio by ANDREW SACHS with Barbara Mitchell and Edward Kelsey
Producer BETTY DAVIES
' We were looking for a civilised way to work, and we found it, but how you marry this attitude to work and to society is a problem society will have to resolve.'
(ALISTAIR MACKIE
Scottish Daily News)
At the beginning of last year several workers' cooperatives were set up with Government funds. One is expected to show a profit after a year's trading; another is struggling to stay in business; and a third has gone into liquidation.
What was the philosophy behind these experiments? What lessons have been learnt from them? Is there a future for the workers' co-operative? An enquiry by Bob Houlton
Research by MAX EASTERMAN
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester
Presenter Michael Oliver
Producer SARAH DUNANT
Douglas Stuart reporting
Cry, the Beloved Country by ALAN PATON
Read by JACK WATSON (7)
preceded by Weather
